By 2008 the clothing market will be worth an estimated 22.2 billion. Womenswear accounts ... more
for over 60 per cent of the apparel retail market in Britain. Where you shop is more important than ever to the high street but how you shop is even more important to you. "How To Shop" looks at shopping through the other end of the telescope: from the consumer's point of view. Mary lets us in on the tricks and tips she's learned from her years at the leading edge of fashion retailing with the ultimate insider's guide to how to get the most out of shops. When to hit the sales how to read a shop window who you are as a shopper in the eyes of the retail trade and how to transform arrogant shop assistants into willing slaves. "How To Shop" tells you everything you wanted to know about shopping but were too afraid to ask. Mary Portas is the woman who turned Harvey Nichols from the place you went to get your Barbour repaired and your tiara polished to a modern powerhouse of fashion and style. Today she's one of the most respected figures in the fashion industry she runs her own retail consultancy Yellowdoor and writes a regular shop review column for "The Saturday Telegraph". What Mary doesn't know about shops isn't worth knowing. Combining must have tips and tricks with a fascinating insight into the inner workings of the world's top fashion retailers "How To Shop" is the ultimate 21st century guide to shopping. Don't leave home without it!
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It must be true that practically everyone who cares about what they eat knows that the ... more
best meats are free-range, probably organic, bred from old strains; that artisanal cheeses are infinitely to be preferred to sweaty supermarket blocks; that you get what you pay for when you buy balsamic vinegar. Yet contemplating the astonishing variety of high-quality foodstuffs available from supermarkets and specialist suppliers can induce a kind of paranoia. Am I really buying the best? Is there some superb, special, little-known estate-grown varietal extra-virgin olive oil that I don't know about? Is this the very best butter? And anyway, how can I tell?Hugo Arnold provides expert guidance in Buying the Best, the subtitle of which, "How to Shop for and Cook with the World's Best Ingredients", indicates the character and scope of his project. Drawing on some 20 years' experience of food buying in the UK and Europe, he makes clear how, in all types of food, quality really does matter. More, he explains how to discriminate between the bland and the good, the merely excellent and the superb. This he does for all the major food types: fish and shellfish, dairy and eggs, meat poultry and game, vegetables, pulses, grains and breads, vinegars, oils, flavourings, not forgetting tea, coffee and chocolate. For each, the basic disciplines of shopping are outlined--where (and when) to buy, what to look for, questions to ask. Basic but pithy preparation instructions are followed by a short selection of recipes for each food group. With these, the muted grey palette of the book explodes into colour in dazzling photographs of the prepared food. The recipes are excellent, simple but bursting with flavour and designed to showcase the excellence of the ingredients. This is man who seriously enjoys his food. --Robin Davidson
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It must be true that practically everyone who cares about what they eat knows that the ... more
best meats are free-range, probably organic, bred from old strains; that artisanal cheeses are infinitely to be preferred to sweaty supermarket blocks; that you get what you pay for when you buy balsamic vinegar. Yet contemplating the astonishing variety of high-quality foodstuffs available from supermarkets and specialist suppliers can induce a kind of paranoia. Am I really buying the best? Is there some superb, special, little-known estate-grown varietal extra-virgin olive oil that I don't know about? Is this the very best butter? And anyway, how can I tell?Hugo Arnold provides expert guidance inBuying the Best, the subtitle of which, "How to Shop for and Cook with the World's Best Ingredients", indicates the character and scope of his project. Drawing on some 20 years' experience of food buying in the UK and Europe, he makes clear how, in all types of food, quality really does matter. More, he explains how to discriminate between the bland and the good, the merely excellent and the superb. This he does for all the major food types: fish and shellfish, dairy and eggs, meat poultry and game, vegetables, pulses, grains and breads, vinegars, oils, flavourings, not forgetting tea, coffee and chocolate. For each, the basic disciplines of shopping are outlined--where (and when) to buy, what to look for, questions to ask. Basic but pithy preparation instructions are followed by a short selection of recipes for each food group. With these, the muted grey palette of the book explodes into colour in dazzling photographs of the prepared food. The recipes are excellent, simple but bursting with flavour and designed to showcasethe excellence of the ingredients. This is man who seriously enjoys his food. --Robin Davidson
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Advantages: Funny, lots of information, nicely presented Disadvantages: Best for children
* MaryQueen of Scots and Her Hopeless Husbands (Dead Famous) Review *
This book is part of the quite popular Dead Famous series which I quite recently got in a box set and each book averaged out at about £2 instead of the usual £4.99 which was quite a bargain and encouraged me to buy these books! The books is 208 pages long but could be read quite quickly die to the fact it is similar to the Horrible History books and has various cartoons, letters, pictures in it which keep the book from being boring but also take up quite a large amount of room.
This particular book is all about MaryQueen of Scots and her exciting life. Within a week of being born her father died so Mary became Queen of Scots and a monarch ? not bad! She is soon sent over to France to marry her first husband who was a bit useless and was also Queen ...
Advantages: A great magazine with good content. Disadvantages: At the dearer end of the market.
and features are abundant so a few adds stuck in between is not the end of the world for me. Without adverts we wouldn't be aware of the many products on the shelves and sometimes I need to be persuaded to buy something by the power of advertising. I can never make up my mind when presented with rows of products in the shops.-
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The articles this month are Eco-Friendly, featuring climate change and predictions for the future. MaryPortas speaks to us on ethical fashion. Trendy and Eco-Friendly- "Howto spend money with a clear conscience". They have an amazing article on the indigenous communities of the Amazon. About the devastation and deforestation and how a tribe deep in the jungle within the rainforests is fighting for survival. Can experts go 'Eco-Glam'? Challenging the experts to see if they can manage it and asking celebs ...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Marie Claire
Advantages: Well researched, great story, realistic characterisation. Disadvantages: Occasional short pieces of repetition.
period re-printed recently by Arrow in paperback. Arrow have also recently re-printed three Jean Plaidy novels about the Medici, four about the Plantagenets and three about the French Revolution.
*** Writing Style ***
As I have only recently discovered that I like Jean Plaidy?s books, I have so far only read three, but the writing style has been similar so far.
The three books I have read have all come from the Tudor series, and are Lord Robert (Elizabeth I?s special friend), and the two books about MaryQueen of Scots, Royal Road to Fotheringay and The Capitve Queen of Scots.
Common features of all three of these books are the historical accuracy and the feeling that I had got to know the main characters extremely well.
At the back of the books are details of research she has done. Being historically accurate was obviously ...
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Type
Non-Fiction
Genre
Reference
Subgenre
Shopping
Title
How to Shop with Mary, Queen of Shops
Author
Mary Portas
Publisher
BBC Books
Number of Pages
224
Edition
Hardcover
ISBN
184607214X; 1846072670
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In 1957 a whole day's play of a Test Match was broadcast on BBC Radio for the first time with the slogan 'Don't miss a ball, we broadcast them all'. This book celebrates 50 years of Test Match Special with anecdotes, behind-the-scenes stories, photos, reminiscences and champagne moments from five decades of top-quality cricket commentary. Sprinkled throughout are 'My First TMS Match' articles by a number of the programme's main contributors, including Jonathan Agnew, Harsha Bhogle, Henry Blofeld, Tony Cozier, Angus Fraser, Bill Frindall, Gerald de Kock, Simon Mann, Vic Marks, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Jim Maxwell, Shilpa Patel, Mike Selvey, Donna Symmonds and Bryan Waddle. Edited by Peter Baxter, the organising brain behind TMS and the programme's producer for 34 years, this is a comprehensive and celebratory account of this most respected and prestigious brand in cricket and an essential read for all fans of the game. See all Product Description
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